Polidoro da Caravaggio

Caldara, Polidoro

Lombard, c. 1499 - 1543

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Italian painter (1499-1543)

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Drawn with red chalk on eggshell-white paper, a woman sits on a box and leans forward, holding out a square cloth. Her body faces our right in profile, and she wears a headdress and a long-sleeved, full-skirted dress. She rests one elbow on her knee as she leans forward. The scene is loosely sketched.
Polidoro da Caravaggio, Woman Seated with a Piece of Cloth [verso], c. 1521/1522, red chalk on laid paper, Gift of David E. Rust, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.9.1.b

Woman Seated with a Piece of Cloth [verso]

Polidoro da Caravaggio · c. 1521/1522 · red chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.9.1.b

Drawn lightly with black chalk on tan-colored paper, a man runs to our right, lifting his right arm and looking back over his right shoulder so he faces us in this vertical drawing. His left leg, farther from us, is raised as he runs. A few lines suggest short curly hair and a beard, shadowed eyes, and his lips seem slightly parted. His thigh-length cape billows behind him, to our left, and he wears a fitted tunic or breastplate and pants cinched at the knee, calf, and ankle. He holds a round shield on his left arm. An annotation in ink in the top left corner reads, “no. 94.” A notation in the lower right, also in ink, reads, “i.91” near a seal or crest that appears to have been stamped in black ink.
Polidoro da Caravaggio, Fleeing Barbarian, early 1520s, black chalk on laid paper, Joseph F. McCrindle Collection, 2010.93.10

Fleeing Barbarian

Polidoro da Caravaggio · early 1520s · black chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  2010.93.10

Drawn with red chalk on cream-white paper, a person lies back in a bed surrounded by nearly twenty people in this horizontal scene. The bed is just to left of center, and the person leans or is propped against the headboard, which is across from us. Curtains are pulled up over the bed. Others kneel, sit, or stand around the bed. They wear long gowns or garments.
Polidoro da Caravaggio, A Deathbed Scene [recto], c. 1521/1522, red chalk on laid paper, Gift of David E. Rust, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.9.1.a

A Deathbed Scene [recto]

Polidoro da Caravaggio · c. 1521/1522 · red chalk on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1991.9.1.a